Dr. Jadvar is a tenured associate professor of radiology (Keck School of Medicine) and biomedical engineering (Viterbi School of Engineering) at the University of Southern California (USC) with hospital appointments at the USC Keck Medical Center, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the LAC+USC Medical Center. He also served as a visiting associate scientist in bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. Dedicated to lifelong learning, Dr. Jadvar received his BS in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, in 1982, followed by a MS in biomedical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., in 1984, and a MS in computer engineering, as well as a PhD in bioengineering, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1986 and 1988, respectively. He then attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago, Ill., for his MD degree (1993). He received his MPH degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 2005 and an Executive MBA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2007. He was a clinical fellow in positron emission tomography with the Harvard Medical School Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine, in Boston, Mass., during 1998-99; a diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine resident at Stanford University, in Stanford, Calif., during 1994-98; and an intern in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Calif., during 1993-94. He has also completed a number of executive educational certificate programs at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass., the University of Cambridge in the UK, the University of Oxford in the UK, and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Penn. Dr. Jadvar is on the leadership editorial boards of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (Associate Editor), Radiology (Consultant to the Editor), American Journal of Roentgenology (Assistant Editor), Clinical Nuclear Medicine (Deputy Editor), and many others. He is the past president of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) and the past recipient of the SNMMI Mark Tetalman Young Investigator Award, the Western Regional SNMMI Distinguished Scientist Award, the Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research Distinguished Investigator Award, the inaugural Prof. Ajit Padhy Oration Memorial Award from the World Association of Radiopharmaceuticals and Molecular Therapy (WARMTH), the SNMMI Peter E. talk, MD, Memorial Award, and the best mentor awards from the ACNM and USC. He is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded investigator and serves on multiple NIH review panels (with one term as a chartered member), Department of Defense, and the Imaging Technology and Informatics Peer Review Panel of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), among others. He is a fellow of ACNM, SNMMI, and the USC Center for Excellence in Research. He is an established nuclear medicine expert for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He has written more than 135 journal articles, has published 4 books, 28 book chapters, 9 patents and has given more than 250 invited speaker presentations and visiting professorships at numerous national and international venues. His research interests include applications of PET in clinical outcome research and in translational molecular imaging research with particular current interest in prostate cancer. (http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~jadvar)